This is a history of the descendants, and
some of the descendants' relatives, of Patrick Morrissy and his wife Mary
Phelan. Patrick and Mary and their family moved to New Brunswick around 1837
from County Tipperary, Ireland. I have placed particular emphasis on the
descendants of their son Laurence Morrissey, my great great grandfather, who
moved to Montreal from New Brunswick in the early 1840s. The generations this history deals with are
Patrick Morrissy and Mary Phelan who emigrated to New Brunswick; their son
Laurence Morrissey and his wife Johannah Meany who moved from New Brunswick to
Montreal; Laurence and Johannah's son Thomas Morrissey who married Mary
Callaghan; Thomas and Mary's son John Martin Morrissey who married Edith
Sweeney; Martin and Edith's son Edgar Morrissey who married Hilda Parker; and
then a brief discussion of their two sons, John and Stephen Morrissey.
